From ‘hot potato voice’ to ‘milky leg syndrome’, hundreds of medical conditions are named after food.
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Sea foam is a health hazard. These bacterial smoothies can contain more harmful pathogens than a sewage treatment plant – and you wouldn’t go swimming in sewage.
The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time.
Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?
Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that could lower their numbers.
Not everyone who ages will necessarily become frail. Here’s the distinction.
Satellite-derived Earth observation data helps researchers unlock new insights into monitoring both environmental and human health.
Officials have confirmed eight new outbreaks in Michigan poultry flocks since mid-December.
Everyone working in health needs to prepare for and be equipped to respond to the health consequences of the climate crisis.
Fighting in parts of Gaza has paused to allow young children to be vaccinated against polio.
Rotifers are microscopic animals and their populations are entirely female.
In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic.
H5N1 is the latest evidence that climate change is altering how viruses spread and evolve. It is essential that global public health officials take these dynamics into account.
In 2022 the top five conditions involved in deaths in Australia were coronary heart disease, dementia, high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease (such as a stroke) and diabetes.
How diseases will change as Earth overheats.
Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence disease outbreaks.
R intestinalis is one of the gut’s primary producers of butyrate – a source of energy for many of the gut’s cells.
People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.
Back pain is common. One in thirteen people have it right now and worldwide a staggering 619 million people will have it this year. Chronic pain, of which back pain is the most common, is the world’s most…
The science of smell is an exciting area of research.
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Ecology, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
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Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of Wollongong